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higan (formerly known as bsnes) is an emulator that began development on 2004-10-14. The purpose of this emulator is a bit different from others: it focuses on accuracy, debugging functionality, and clean code. The emulator does not focus on things that would hinder accuracy.This includes speed and game-specific hacks for compatibility. As a result, the minimum system requirements for higan are very high.

It currently supports the following systems: Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (SNES), Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. It also supports the following subsystems: Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview and Sufami Turbo.

* Options *

1) higan has 2 interfaces to choose from. The default is QTand the other is GTK. If you'd like to choose the GTK interface,then pass INTERFACE=gtk to the slackbuild.

INTERFACE=qt|gtk (default: qt)

2) There are 3 modes that higan can be built. There can only be onemode chosen at build time. The 3 modes are accuracy, balanced (default),and performance. To choose accuracy mode pass PROFILE=accuracy to the slackbuild. For performance mode pass PROFILE=performance to the slackbuild.

PROFILE=accuracy|balanced|performance (default: balanced)

3) If you want to have an OpenAL or pulseaudio audio driver option,you can build higan to support them by passing OPENAL=yes andPULSEAUDIO=yes to the slackbuild, which would require their respectivepackages. By default, these options are disabled.

The default profile folder (where platform system files, cheats and shaders are located) is /usr/share/higan. If you want a personalizedprofile, store your files in ~/.config/higan/, then higan will usethis folder instead.